Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
COMING SOON
hi, recently i have learnt some new techniques, well to be honest techniques are pretty old but i have discovered them recently, skinning is one thing, you can use plug-ins and utilities to help you along but i personally believe that a good engineer is one who can make a machine work at proper efficiency with minimum requirements. its easy to take out a tank with a missile but it takes guts and brains to do the same with a pistol. with this thought i work.
the very basic is skeleton creation, i sure learnt a lot of stuff, there is a proper way to do it, normal t-pose characters are ok, but when it comes to stylized characters joint creation is a bit typical, suppose there is a character with arms open and reaching out in front. you can create locators to mark joint positions and later vert-snap while creating joints. but this wont ensure proper joint orientation. this has to be done manually. so there i learnt a valuable lesson. next is skinning.
i rigged a high poly character and later i realized that i had to make blend shapes. gosh i was in a soup, but then a thought struck my mind, why not detach the head from the body apply the blend shapes and then attach it back to the body. it worked all right, blend shapes worked pretty fine but the problem was to recover the weights of the deleted skin cluster. it was a really tricky but it came all very easy. now i have added a few more tricks up my sleeve. it helps in making interoperable rigs, that allow you to change or modify the rigs at any point of time. its more an approach than a technique of rigging.
Hi, very soon you are going to see these characters alive.
thanx for all your support and motivation.
the very basic is skeleton creation, i sure learnt a lot of stuff, there is a proper way to do it, normal t-pose characters are ok, but when it comes to stylized characters joint creation is a bit typical, suppose there is a character with arms open and reaching out in front. you can create locators to mark joint positions and later vert-snap while creating joints. but this wont ensure proper joint orientation. this has to be done manually. so there i learnt a valuable lesson. next is skinning.
i rigged a high poly character and later i realized that i had to make blend shapes. gosh i was in a soup, but then a thought struck my mind, why not detach the head from the body apply the blend shapes and then attach it back to the body. it worked all right, blend shapes worked pretty fine but the problem was to recover the weights of the deleted skin cluster. it was a really tricky but it came all very easy. now i have added a few more tricks up my sleeve. it helps in making interoperable rigs, that allow you to change or modify the rigs at any point of time. its more an approach than a technique of rigging.
Hi, very soon you are going to see these characters alive.
thanx for all your support and motivation.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Work In Progress
Character Rigs:
I am currently working on these rigs, very soon i'll upload here the full demo
TINY
A final render with all his weapons
downloaded this model from high end 3d, i dont know the name of the person who has modeled this character but i am grateful to him/her.
I will make it a simple yet effective rig, i am not going to use any external plugins or scripts in this one, i will also not use maya's muscle system. i'll try to make it on joints and influence objects.
watch the video and find out whats new, i have added a pose library to the file.
MANTICORE
Modeled by : Vaibhav Gupta
I am currently working on these rigs, very soon i'll upload here the full demo
TINY
A final render with all his weapons
downloaded this model from high end 3d, i dont know the name of the person who has modeled this character but i am grateful to him/her.
I will make it a simple yet effective rig, i am not going to use any external plugins or scripts in this one, i will also not use maya's muscle system. i'll try to make it on joints and influence objects.
watch the video and find out whats new, i have added a pose library to the file.
MANTICORE
Modeled by : Vaibhav Gupta
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Hi, this is a simple tail rig, or a floating ball rig. i made this, i thought to share it with you people. Anyway, currently i am working on few characters, as soon as i am done with them, i'll share them with you.
till then
take care
This again is a simple jelly type rig, its easy to make, not that difficult but the process can be very tedious coz there are a lot of stuff that need to be taken care of. any way take a look and comment on its deformations.
till then
take care
This again is a simple jelly type rig, its easy to make, not that difficult but the process can be very tedious coz there are a lot of stuff that need to be taken care of. any way take a look and comment on its deformations.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Joints and Skeleton
hi,
this post is for your joint and skeleton related queries, here you can discuss your joint and skeleton related problems like:
whats the proper way of joint creation?
what is spine spline?
or anything of this sort.
you can share your experiences and problems with joint creation or how you prefer skeleton creation. your comments and queries are most welcome.
take care
this post is for your joint and skeleton related queries, here you can discuss your joint and skeleton related problems like:
whats the proper way of joint creation?
what is spine spline?
or anything of this sort.
you can share your experiences and problems with joint creation or how you prefer skeleton creation. your comments and queries are most welcome.
take care
Expressions and MEL
hi once again,
this post is for your expressions and mel related queries. like:
what is mel?
is mel useful?
what are expressions and what's their significance?
can i do rigging without scripting?
or any script related query. spoon feeding will not be encouraged. i am here to discuss and help you with your problems not to serve the solution, garnished on a platter, to you. if you are passionate you will want to find the solution by yourself rather that asking someone else to do it for you.
I am the rigging artist of PLANMAN and a student just like you, i work and i learn. i too get stuck at places and look hard for solutions. i find satisfaction in creativity.
Keep pouring in guys, coz i have pretty nasty secrets of rigging, some i have learned and some i have cultivated, that are waiting to be revealed. i will pass on the secrets but only to the passionate ones, so brace yourselves and join me in my quest of knowledge.
hope to hear from you all soon.
all the best guys.
this post is for your expressions and mel related queries. like:
what is mel?
is mel useful?
what are expressions and what's their significance?
can i do rigging without scripting?
or any script related query. spoon feeding will not be encouraged. i am here to discuss and help you with your problems not to serve the solution, garnished on a platter, to you. if you are passionate you will want to find the solution by yourself rather that asking someone else to do it for you.
I am the rigging artist of PLANMAN and a student just like you, i work and i learn. i too get stuck at places and look hard for solutions. i find satisfaction in creativity.
Keep pouring in guys, coz i have pretty nasty secrets of rigging, some i have learned and some i have cultivated, that are waiting to be revealed. i will pass on the secrets but only to the passionate ones, so brace yourselves and join me in my quest of knowledge.
hope to hear from you all soon.
all the best guys.
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